Re: Yamaha TG-100 / TG-300 and MT-32 mode

Posted on Today, 05:11

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by cyclone3d

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You can also buy a Roland RA-50, which is basically a CM32 inside. They are quite a bit cheaper. Thanks a lot dude..... now I have an RA-50 on the way. Are there any other devices you know of besides these that have full MT-32 compatibility? MT-100 RA-50 LAPC-I CM-32L CM-64 CM-32LN CM-500 LAPC-N …

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Re: CT1600 (Sound Blaster Pro 2.0) - Issues

Posted on Yesterday, 20:23

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by cyclone3d

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System 1 - guessing your CT1600 is probably one of the earlier revisions without the clock crystal that the later revisions have. Probably has to do with the system being too fast for the card. System 2- Could be the same problem with speed but not as bad. Guessing you are running it at 66x2.5 right …

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Re: MS-DOS DoubleSpace and DriveSpace, anyone use it?

Posted on Yesterday, 19:50

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by cyclone3d

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Good memory managers had native support for the most common disk compression drivers and can load them nearly fully to XMS. So the memory argument is only an issue if you have a game that requires real mode and that game was stored by yourself on the compressed disk. And the solution to that is …

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Re: MS-DOS DoubleSpace and DriveSpace, anyone use it?

Posted on Yesterday, 18:44

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by cyclone3d

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It is worth about as much as those "speed doubler" and "ram doubler" snake oil programs from back then. Might as well go download some more RAM. Well, it actually worked and did what it was supposed to do. On my 250 MB drive, I had about 400 MB stored in the end. It just wasn't reliable, but mainly …

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Re: finding a working IDE DVD drive

Posted on Yesterday, 17:07

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by cyclone3d

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If you open up the IDE drives, you should be able to adjust the laser power. There is almost always a very small POT on the laser assembly. Usually just adjusting it a tiny bit will make them work better with burned discs. Before upping the laser power, I would try cleaning the laser lens first. …

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Re: AWE32: Stop soundfont from auto-loading at Win98 boot?

Posted on Yesterday, 17:02

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by cyclone3d

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I see that Windows 98 doesn't support TaksManager running tasks at shutdown. Better way instead of renaming the files all the time is to run a script to call the registry change and then call the shutdown dialogue. See here for some more info: https://msfn.org/board/topic/44186-run-batch-scripts-on- …

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Re: The "best" S3 Virge cards to buy?

Posted on Yesterday, 14:03

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by cyclone3d

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@candle_86.... you and me both. I have 1.5+ filing cabinet drawers full of loose PCI video cards.... all in anti-static bags just for any of those that would freak out about them just being stacked on each other in a huge mess. I'm pretty sure I have one of the STB 4MB cards with the 4MB upgrade. …

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Re: MS-DOS DoubleSpace and DriveSpace, anyone use it?

Posted on Yesterday, 07:33

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by cyclone3d

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I tried it back then, found it was total crap and stopped using it. Btw, have fun uncompressing a compressed drive unless you just copy everything over to a different drive and then format the compressed drive. It is worth about as much as those "speed doubler" and "ram doubler" snake oil programs …

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Re: The "best" S3 Virge cards to buy?

Posted on Yesterday, 06:28

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by cyclone3d

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Anonymous Coward wrote on Yesterday, 05:29: candle_86 wrote on 2020-05-25, 12:29: What's scary is the prices they ask on eBay for the Virge VX with 8mb of vram There's one on eBay right now starting at $15 with $35BIN that nobody is bidding on, but I'd probably get in trouble if I posted the link. …

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Re: VLB motherboard frustrations.

Posted on Yesterday, 02:20

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by cyclone3d

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I have a few VLB systems mostly put together and they tend to just work. Of course I am only running them at 33Mhz FSB right now. I actually have quite a few more 486 motherboards with VLB.. most of which I haven't even tested. They mostly came to me in cheap lots with other motherboards or in …

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Re: AWE32: Stop soundfont from auto-loading at Win98 boot?

Posted on 2020-06-03, 17:00

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by cyclone3d

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Have it run the scheduled task on shut-down instead of start-up.

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Re: Last time ordering from electromyne :-(

Posted on 2020-06-03, 14:53

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by cyclone3d

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Normally he has to mention that the item is just a Show Item and can actually differ from the Image. German Law say he has to do so. If he does, its fine. If he is advertising it as a particular brand and model, and then sends a different brand and model, then that is not ok. If the listing simply …

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Re: ASUS P/E-P55T2P4D - dual socket 7 motherboard

Posted on 2020-06-03, 05:00

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by cyclone3d

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reserved

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Re: ASUS P/E-P55T2P4D - dual socket 7 motherboard

Posted on 2020-06-03, 05:00

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by cyclone3d

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Pics: Filename P_E-P55T2P4D.jpg File size 451.17 KiB Views 100 views Filename jumpers_1.jpg File size 73.68 KiB Views 100 views Filename jumpers_2.jpg File size 31.02 KiB Views 100 views Filename jumpers_3.jpg File size 19.92 KiB Views 100 views Filename jumpers_4.jpg File size 130.66 KiB Views 100 …

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ASUS P/E-P55T2P4D - dual socket 7 motherboard

Posted on 2020-06-03, 04:58

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by cyclone3d

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Since I have had requests to post about this board, I will start with some pics and what was still available from ASUS for starters.. and then once I have time to actually play with this board I will post some more about it. ASUS' page: https://www.asus.com/supportonly/PE-P55T2P4D/ Files from ASUS: …

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Re: VOGONS Driver Library

Posted on 2020-06-03, 01:52

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by cyclone3d

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How is the archive.org book loan thing any different than a public library other than the books being digital? I'm sure these companies requested these books be taken down before suing archive.org.. right? right?

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Re: ISA cards don't fit in my case

Posted on 2020-06-03, 01:45

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by cyclone3d

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There are definitely a few different lengths of standoffs. For screw-in ones: 5mm ones are really short 6.3mm are the normal ones 8mm are the long ones On top of that you have standoffs that have either fine or coarse pitch threads. Then you have some cases that use metal clip-in standoffs. They …

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Re: VOGONS Driver Library

Posted on 2020-06-02, 03:28

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by cyclone3d

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Space-wise, why even bother with a hosting provider. Google Drive is a whole $9.99 a month or $99.99 a year for 2TB. I'm sure with some google API fun you could just use it for hosting the files. Surely that is cheaper than paying for hosting. https://developers.google.com/drive/api/v3/about-sdk

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Re: VOGONS Driver Library

Posted on 2020-06-01, 20:48

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by cyclone3d

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What about something like this... You have people volunteer to set up ftp mirrors? There would just need to be some sort of automation set up to keep stuff up to date. I know I could do so with my connection and I am planning on setting up a larger ftp anyway. I can't guarantee that download speeds …

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Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Posted on 2020-06-01, 19:22

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by cyclone3d

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Another tiny compact in for my collection :-) Just fond this little beauty (well it was not a beauty when I found it - coffe was spilled into/over it many years ago and it needed lot of cleaning) at local scrapper's yard. I love it's design. Just a few clicks and whole computer is disassembled. …

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